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Sunday, June 24, 2007
2007-06-24 20:51:00 В грузин ;ской школе учител ;ь- мужчин ;а провод ;ит урок физкул ;ьтуры. Девочк ;и крутят ; обручи ;. На Манану ; обруч не налеза ;ет. Учител ;ь: - Манана ;! Персик ;! Не порть фигуру ;! Иди домой! More About: June , Sunday
Missions
2007-06-20 01:40:00 The Onion has a great piece on why some missions should never take place. More About: Missions , Mission , Missi
Homosexuality & The Church: Two Views
2007-06-19 14:03:00 This Commonweal article features a debate between a New Testament scholar Luke Timothy Johnson and a freelance writer Eve Tushnet on the topic of same-sex relationships. Surprisingly, while Johnson argues for a reform in the current position of the Church on the issue, the openly lesbian Tushnet sides with the traditional position of the Roman Catholic church. More About: Views , Homosexuality , The Church , Ality
Sodom
2007-06-13 15:50:00 "The Real Sin of Sodom " by Kim FabriciusGive this sermon a read! More About: Odom
Auntie?!
2007-06-12 23:11:00 So my friends and I go to a local flea market to check it out. I want to try on some sunglasses. So, I pick up a pair, put them on, look in the mirror and hear: "Show them to your mommy" from a Vietnamese-looking girl who works at the stand. "She's not my mom," I answer briskly."Oh, sorry," the Asian voice continues, "...Auntie?!""Nope, not my aunt either.""Oh, sorry. I'm sorry... I'm so sorry.""She is a friend," Jennifer finally tells her.The girl is clearly embarrassed and keeps apologizing as we walk away.Lesson #1 for the world to learn: ALWAYS KNOW WHEN TO SHUT UP.Lesson #2: SHORT HAIR DOESN'T EQUAL TWELVE-YEAR-OLD BOY!
What the World Eats
2007-06-05 16:57:00 What 15 different families from all around the world eat over a week and how much they spend on it. Fascinating! More About: World , The World
Pictures
2007-06-04 21:31:00 I've started a Flickr account to keep my family and friends updated on what is going on with me this summer. Access it at the following address: http://www.flickr.com/photos/suzzzanna More About: Pictures
Memory Test
2007-05-17 16:56:00 To test your short-term memory, go here and take this test. It says that an average twenty-year-old will remember 7 out of 15 words and an average eighty-year-old will remember 4. How about you?Despite of what some of my friends say about my "extraordinary memory," it's not all that extraordinary after all, since I could only remember 10 out of 15. I guess this is better than your average person. But then again, the average person is usually an idiot anyway.Credit to Lifehacker.com for the link. More About: Memory , Test , Memo
God and I
2007-05-17 15:56:00 I've been thinking about God lately. Well, no, the correct thing to say would be that I haven't been thinking about God all that much lately, and so when I do, it's kind of a big deal and even deserves its own special Xanga entry. Of course, being a theology major I am forced to think and talk about God a lot. I also read lots of theology books and Bible dictionaries. I am subscribed to and read a bunch of theology, philosophy and biblioblogs. I even open my Bible once in a while to see if what I had just presented as scripture and built my argument on is actually in it. But I no longer relate to God in any way. Not even in church. Again, sure, I discuss the history of Christian thought about the Trinity or Jesus' nature, but I rarely take any of this to heart. My discussions stay on a purely intellectual level and hardly affect my non-existent "spiritual life," as they call it in the Campus Crusade for Christ circles. And I don't think that it is such a bad thing. I remember...
A Clever Criticism of [a Certain Kind of] Religion
2007-05-16 08:25:00 Religion has convinced people that there is an invisible man living in the sky who watches everything you do every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a special list of ten things he does not want you to do. And if you do any of these ten things, he has a special place full of fire, and smoke, and burning, and torture, and anguish where he will send you to live, and suffer, and burn, and choke, and scream, and cry forever and ever, till the end of time? But he loves you! He loves you and he needs money. He always needs money. He is all-powerful, all-perfect, all-knowing and all-wise. Somehow, he just can?t handle money! -- George Carlin, "You Are All Diseased" More About: Religion , Ever , Criticism , Gion , Clever
A Clever Critique of [a Certain Kind of] Religion
2007-05-16 08:25:00 Religion has convinced people that there is an invisible man living in the sky who watches everything you do every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a special list of ten things he does not want you to do. And if you do any of these ten things, he has a special place full of fire, and smoke, and burning, and torture, and anguish where he will send you to live, and suffer, and burn, and choke, and scream, and cry forever and ever, till the end of time? But he loves you! He loves you and he needs money. He always needs money. He is all-powerful, all-perfect, all-knowing and all-wise. Somehow, he just can?t handle money! -- George Carlin, "You Are All Diseased" More About: Religion , Ever , Gion , Ique , Critique
Bible Fight
2007-05-12 06:54:00 I found this link on a friend's website. It's a fun little game in which different Bible characters... fight. Every character has some special unique things only they can do. Noah, for example, will occasionally use the help of all the animals on the ark with him; Mary will throw a rosary at her opponent, etc. Anyway, check it out. It's fun! More About: Fight , Bible Fight
YHWH
2007-05-09 14:06:00 When Moses asks [God's] name and credentials, Yahweh replies with a pun which, as we shall see, would exercise monotheism for centuries. Instead of revealing his name directly, he answers "I Am Who I Am (Ehyeh asher ehyeh)." What did he mean? He certainly did not mean, as later philosophers would assert, that he was self-subsistent Being. Hebrew did not have such a metaphysical dimension at this stage, and it would be nearly 2000 years before it acquired one. God seems to have meant something rather more direct. Ehyeh asher ehyeh is a Hebrew idiom to express a deliberate vagueness. When the Bible uses a phrase like "they went where they went," it means: "I haven't the faintest idea where they went." So when Moses asks who he is, God replies in effect: "Never you mind who I am!" or "Mind your own business!" There was to be no discussion of God's nature and certainly no attempt to manipulate him as pagans sometimes did when they recited the names of their gods. (21-22)-- Armstrong,...
YHWH
2007-05-09 14:06:00 When Moses asks [God's] name and credentials, Yahweh replies with a pun which, as we shall see, would exercise monotheism for centuries. Instead of revealing his name directly, he answers "I Am Who I Am (Ehyeh asher ehyeh)." What did he mean? He certainly did not mean, as later philosophers would assert, that he was self-subsistent Being. Hebrew did not have such a metaphysical dimension at this stage, and it would be nearly 2000 years before it acquired one. God seems to have meant something rather more direct. Ehyeh asher ehyeh is a Hebrew idiom to express a deliberate vagueness. When the Bible uses a phrase like "they went where they went," it means: "I haven't the faintest idea where they went." So when Moses asks who he is, God replies in effect: "Never you mind who I am!" or "Mind your own business!" There was to be no discussion of God's nature and certainly no attempt to manipulate him as pagans sometimes did when they recited the names of their gods. (21-22)-- Armstrong,...
Seriously?
2007-05-08 08:18:00 You scored as Roman Catholic. You are Roman Catholic. Church tradition and ecclesial authority are hugely important, and the most important part of worship for you is mass. As the Mother of God, Mary is important in your theology, and as the communion of saints includes the living and the dead, you can also ask the saints to intercede for you.Roman Catholic68%Emergent/Postmodern64%Evangeli cal Holiness/Wesleyan54%Neo orthodox50%Modern Liberal46%Classical Liberal36%Charismatic/Pentecostal25%Refor med Evangelical0%Fundamentalist0%What's your theological worldview?created with QuizFarm.com More About: Seriously
Seriously?
2007-05-08 08:18:00 You scored as Roman Catholic. You are Roman Catholic. Church tradition and ecclesial authority are hugely important, and the most important part of worship for you is mass. As the Mother of God, Mary is important in your theology, and as the communion of saints includes the living and the dead, you can also ask the saints to intercede for you.Roman Catholic68%Emergent/Postmodern64%Evangeli cal Holiness/Wesleyan54%Neo orthodox50%Modern Liberal46%Classical Liberal36%Charismatic/Pentecostal25%Refor med Evangelical0%Fundamentalist0%What's your theological worldview?created with QuizFarm.com More About: Seriously
US
2007-05-07 10:25:00 To answer the questions of those who commented on my last entry, I will be in Denver most of the time. At some point, I will also go to Oklahoma. For now, visiting Kansas is not in my plans.
US
2007-05-07 10:25:00 To answer the questions of those who commented on my last entry, I will be in Denver most of the time. At some point, I will also go to Oklahoma. For now, visiting Kansas is not in my plans.
Wednesday, May 02, 2007
2007-05-02 06:36:00 I guess I'm coming to the States this summer. More About: Wednesday
Minsk
2007-04-27 08:27:00 Coming home for a week! I arrive on Sunday, April 29 at about 8 pm and then leave the following Sunday early in the morning.
Sleep
2007-04-25 06:32:00 I haven't been sleeping well for the last five nights. It's driving me nuts. Literally. I run into things and I say dumb things and then laugh for a long time. I think that I may actually be slowly turning into the lady whom I mentioned in my last entry. So, this morning when I woke up at 4 am, I was reading some Mitch Hedberg. Here's what he has to say about insomnia: "If you can't sleep, count sheep. Don't count endangered animals. You will run out." More About: Sleep
Girl?
2007-04-24 05:48:00 A homeless-looking woman came into our church service on Sunday. This is not unusual since we rent the Klaipeda "Salvation Army" building for church, and often a homeless person will wander in and stay for the service and the tea afterwards. As someone put it, the woman was sort of together and sort of not. She would react to what people were saying to her, and the next minute she would start rambling about something and saying all kind of nonsense. But, apparently, whatever she was saying or imagining was really cool 'cause she kept laughing the entire time. Man, I wish I could tell myself something to even make me smile these days!..Anyway, I get very uncomfortable with these sorts of people. I really care about them and I'm sorry they have ended up as alcoholics or drug-addicts, but I never know how to act around them. She seemed to know how to interact with the people at church pretty well, though. As one of the families were leaving, she asked if the baby was a boy or a girl.... More About: Girl
Rich
More articles from this author:2007-04-11 09:34:00 Good news: I'm rich. Well, at least according to my school's financial services director. They took away a large part of my scholarship although they had promised that the maximum decrease would not exceed a certain amount. When I asked them how that happened, I received the following LAME reply: "In the meeting we also said that we will be reevaluating financial need. In your case financial need is 0 Lt." Awesome! Who knew--my financial need is 0 Lt!Mood: sarcastic and angry. More About: Rich 1, 2, 3 |
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